Comments on: Decline or Extinction: What can we do?http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2008/10/08/decline-or-extinction-what-can-we-do/
A Bird Blog with Kate St. JohnTue, 03 Mar 2015 19:30:15 +0000hourly1By: Lauren Conklehttp://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2008/10/08/decline-or-extinction-what-can-we-do/comment-page-1/#comment-4578
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:43:43 +0000http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=656#comment-4578Another easy way to help birds, for those of us who drink coffee, is to buy shade-grown, organic coffee. It is grown naturally in the forest, which saves habitat for our migratory songbirds, and it doesn’t require the use of chemical fertilizers the way sun-grown coffee does. It’s delicious and fair trade as well, which makes life better for the farmers who grow it.

There is a company that has beautiful illustrations of birds on the bags of coffee it sells, and I believe the company is called Thanksgiving Coffee Co. They donate some of the profit they make on each bag to organizations which help birds. Shade-grown coffee is available for purchase online, but I’ve also found it in stores as well.

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Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:41:27 +0000http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=656#comment-4514EEEEKKK! And here when I moved to Pittsburgh I just thought grackles weren’t as abundunt in these parts as they are in IL (where I grew up practically tripping over them). Very scary indeed!
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Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:45:31 +0000http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=656#comment-4506Kate – Thanks for writing about this thought-provoking subject. Doing our little part for the environment, we had already replace most of the bulbs in the house with CF’s, lowered the temperature of the water heater and furnace, put our outdoor lights on sensors, and we’re about to buy a long-overdue refrigerator (you can be sure that it will be Energy Star rated). After reading today’s blog, I re-joined the Audubon Society. These things seem so small, but it all adds up, doesn’t it?
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